Supreme Court docket: Collegium picks Chief Justices of Delhi, Rajasthan, Gauhati Excessive Courts as Supreme Court docket judges | India Information
NEW DELHI: The five-member Supreme Court docket collegium led by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Monday really useful to the Union authorities to nominate Justices Satish Chandra Sharma, Augustine George Masih and Sandeep Mehta, chief justices of the excessive courts of Delhi, Rajasthan and Gauhati respectively, as judges of the apex court docket.
The collegium, comprising the CJI and Justices S Okay Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, Bhushan R Gavai and Surya Kant, stated the choice to advocate the three names was made “after fastidiously evaluating the benefit, integrity and competence of eligible chief justices and senior judges of the HCs and likewise accommodating a plurality of concerns”.
The SC, with a sanctioned energy of 34 judges together with the CJI, is functioning with 31 judges. The collegium decision stated the court docket has an enormous backlog of instances and the mounting pendency has significantly elevated the workload of judges. “Bearing this in thoughts, it has turn out to be mandatory to make sure that the court docket has full working judge-strength, leaving no emptiness at any level of time. Thus, the collegium has determined to replenish all of the three present vacancies by recommending names,” it stated.
Justice Sharma was transferred to Delhi HC as CJ on June 28 final yr. He’s quantity two in all-India seniority amongst HC judges. Justice Masih was elevated as CJ of Rajasthan HC on Might 30 this yr. Justice Mehta was appointed as a decide of Rajasthan HC in 2011 and as CJ of Gauhati HC on February 15, 2023.
The collegium, comprising the CJI and Justices S Okay Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, Bhushan R Gavai and Surya Kant, stated the choice to advocate the three names was made “after fastidiously evaluating the benefit, integrity and competence of eligible chief justices and senior judges of the HCs and likewise accommodating a plurality of concerns”.
The SC, with a sanctioned energy of 34 judges together with the CJI, is functioning with 31 judges. The collegium decision stated the court docket has an enormous backlog of instances and the mounting pendency has significantly elevated the workload of judges. “Bearing this in thoughts, it has turn out to be mandatory to make sure that the court docket has full working judge-strength, leaving no emptiness at any level of time. Thus, the collegium has determined to replenish all of the three present vacancies by recommending names,” it stated.
Justice Sharma was transferred to Delhi HC as CJ on June 28 final yr. He’s quantity two in all-India seniority amongst HC judges. Justice Masih was elevated as CJ of Rajasthan HC on Might 30 this yr. Justice Mehta was appointed as a decide of Rajasthan HC in 2011 and as CJ of Gauhati HC on February 15, 2023.
